Long-handle version of the standard 22-oz rock pick. The extra leverage shows up when you’re trying to lift a layer of overburden, work a fossil out of matrix, or chip into harder rock that the shorter shaft can’t drive through. Same forged-steel one-piece construction with the blue Shock Reduction grip.
Paleontologists, mining-school students, and serious rockhounds tend to upgrade from the E3-22P to the E3-23LP after their first week of fieldwork in real bedrock. The longer reach also keeps your knuckles farther from sharp rock chips.
Estwing forges hand tools in Rockford, Illinois — operating since 1923.
